Catálogo de libros: Agricultura sostenible

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  • Achieving sustainable production of poultry meat Volume 3
    Health and welfare are major issues in poultry production. This collection reviews our understanding of bacterial, viral and other diseases affecting poultry and their effective management. It also discusses ways of managing poultry flocks to optimise their welfare from hatching to slaughter. ...
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    262,70 €

  • Achieving sustainable cultivation of cassava Volume 2
    Volume 2 reviews genetic resources and breeding techniques as well as their use to produce varieties with traits such as enhanced resistance to biotic and abiotic stresses. It also discusses key pests and diseases and their management in making cultivation more efficient and sustainable. ...
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    234,95 €

  • Achieving sustainable production of milk Volume 3
    Jan Hultgren
    Animal health and welfare are of major importance in dairy farming. This collection looks at the key issues affecting dairy herd welfare as well as ways of optimising dairy cattle nutrition. It also reviews ways of detecting, preventing and managing diseases affecting dairy cattle. ...
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    401,88 €

  • Achieving sustainable production of poultry meat Volume 2
    There have been significant advances in poultry breeding and nutrition. This books discusses key developments such as marker-assisted breeding and improvements in poultry feed such as the use of enzymes to optimise nutritional efficiency. ...
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    248,84 €

  • Achieving sustainable cultivation of cassava Volume 1
    This collection begins by reviewing the current state of cassava cultivation, before going on to review the range of techniques enabling sustainable intensification, from seed systems management to intercropping and post-harvest management. ...
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    318,28 €

  • Achieving sustainable cultivation of maize Volume 2
    Volume 2 covers methods for improving maize cultivation, from seed selection to nutrition, irrigation and techniques such as intercropping. It also reviews research on key pests and diseases and methods for their control in making cultivation more efficient and sustainable. ...
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    318,43 €

  • Achieving sustainable cultivation of wheat Volume 2
    Volume 2 discusses ways of improving cultivation from variety selection to post-harvest storage. It reviews trends in integrated crop management, sustainable intensification and organic cultivation before concluding by looking at ways of supporting smallholders in the developing world. ...
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    214,28 €

  • AGROECOLOGICAL PRACTICES FOR SUSTAINABLE AGRICULTURE
    ALEXANDER WEZEL
    Good agroecological practices are indispensable for the development of sustainable agriculture. In this book, principles, diversity and applications of agroecological practices for a range of systems are presented, transforming scientific research and participatory knowledge of production into practical application. It illustrates a broad range of research and teaching being us...
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    222,93 €

  • Achieving sustainable cultivation of wheat Volume 1
    This book reviews advances in breeding techniques as well as their application to produce drought-resistant and other improved varieties. It also discusses wheat nutritional quality. Finally it reviews developments such as disease-resistant varieties and other techniques to combat pests and diseases. ...
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    346,82 €

  • Achieving sustainable cultivation of apples
    This book reviews our understanding of tree and fruit physiology and how it can be used in breeding better varieties. It also discusses pests and diseases and ways they can be prevented or controlled to make cultivation more productive. ...
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    367,33 €

  • Rice insect pests and their management
    E A Heinrichs / Emeritus Prof. E. A. Heinrichs / Francis E Nwilene / Francis E. Nwilene / Michael J Stout / Professor Michael J. Stout
    This book uses the unique expertise of leading rice entomologists from Africa, Asia and the Americas to provide the first global coverage of rice insect pests. The groups of insects discussed are : Root and stem feeders, Stem borers, Rice gall midges, Leafhoppers and planthoppers, Foliage feeders and, finally, Panicle feeders. The book concludes with a discussion of integrated ...
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    331,68 €

  • Handbook of Integrated and Sustainable Buildings Equipment and Systems
    Jorge E Gonzalez / Moncef Krarti
    This Handbook of Integrated and Sustainable Buildings Equipment and Systems is a direct result of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME) initiative on Integrated/Sustainable Building Equipment and Systems (ISBES) which has the objective of filling voids in the literature and motivate advances on integrated mechanical systems in buildings. The main focus of this fir...
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    293,87 €

  • Ensuring safety and quality in the production of beef Volume 1
    Volume 1 looks at key research trends in ensuring safe beef production, both on the farm and during slaughter. These include current research on pathogens in beef, risk assessment and detection as well as food safety management. ...
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    213,96 €

  • Achieving sustainable cultivation of maize Volume 1
    This volume focuses on breeding new varieties with desirable traits such as drought tolerance and improved nutritional value as well as how such innovations can be successfully deployed in the developing world. ...
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    248,86 €

  • Achieving sustainable production of milk Volume 2
    Safety remains a key issue for the dairy industry. This book reviews current research on understanding and managing pathogens in dairy farms. It also discusses more recent concerns about the environmental impact of dairy farming and ways it can be made more sustainable, including in developing countries. ...
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    332,13 €

  • Organic and Sustainable Agriculture
    Jordan Berg
    Organic and Sustainable Agriculture aim to replace the current agricultural practices with more environment- friendly practices. This involves avoiding the use of chemical products and using organic fertilizers such as compost or green manure. This book attempts to understand the multiple branches that fall under the discipline of organic and sustainable agriculture and how suc...
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    158,27 €

  • Achieving sustainable cultivation of rice Volume 2
    Volume 2 reviews ways of improving cultivation of rice, from planting to soil management, nutrition and irrigation as well as techniques such as integrated crop management. It also discusses key pests and diseases and methods for their control in making cultivation more productive and sustainable. ...
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    249,16 €

  • Achieving sustainable cultivation of rice Volume 1
    This collection reviews advances in breeding techniques as well as improving traits such as flood or drought resistance. It also discusses advances in understanding the nutritional role of rice and ways this can be enhanced to feed a growing population. ...
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    234,86 €

  • Sustainable Crop Production
    Alabaster Jenkins
    Sustainable crop production came as a revolution in the industry of crop production and agriculture. This field has emerged as a way of questioning the current practices of crop production which are proving hazardous to the ecology and detrimental to human health. The goal of this text is to strive for environmentally healthy and economically feasible alternative practices. Thi...
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    183,29 €

  • The Permaculture Student 2
    Matt Powers
    Representing & collaborating with dozens of experts & organizations from around the world, Matt Powers' latest installment in his series of curriculum takes permaculture to a new level & organizes all regenerative techniques & methodologies into one clear, understandable system that also serves as a path to deeper study.The Permaculture Student 2 - Why is it better than wha...
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    70,46 €

  • Ensuring safety and quality in the production of beef Volume 2
    Volume 2 reviews developments related to quality, starting with the way breeding and growth affect meat quality. The book then discusses cattle nutrition and management before concluding with an assessment of factors determining individual quality traits such as colour and flavour. ...
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    318,33 €

  • Achieving sustainable cultivation of tomatoes
    This book reviews key developments in tomato breeding, including developing improved varieties with desirable traits such as drought or pest resistance. It also discusses ways of improving cultivation techniques as well as pests, diseases and their control. ...
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    297,99 €

  • Achieving sustainable production of milk Volume 1
    This book provides a detailed review of current research on key components and quality traits of milk as well as ways of measuring milk quality. It then discusses genetic factors affecting these traits and how they can be used to improve breeding of dairy cows. ...
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    248,90 €

  • Achieving sustainable production of eggs Volume 1
    This collection begins by looking at egg composition and chemistry. This provides a foundation for discussing pathogenic contamination of eggs and methods for its prevention, detection and control. The book concludes by assessing factors affecting egg appearance, shelf-life, nutritional value and other quality traits. ...
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    297,54 €

  • Agriculture under Climate Change
    Agriculture continues to be an important sector fuelling economic growth. Rapidly changing climate is already affecting the production of food and feed, industrial crops, livestock, and seafood. In developing countries like India, agriculture and allied sectors contribute significantly to the gross domestic product. Therefore, evolving strategies to sustain a stable growth of t...
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    32,31 €

  • Advances in Agricultural Extension Towards Changing the Lives and Livelihoods
    M Surya Mani / Sarvareddy Venku Reddy
    The book present unified picture of pragmatic knowledge ontrends in agriculture extension, innovative extension approaches, new methodologies and methods including Information and communication technologies (ICT), extension and focused areas towards changing lives livelihoods of farmers. An attempt has been to comprehend exension practitioner’s experiances who worked in differe...
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    97,79 €

  • Achieving sustainable production of eggs Volume 2
    Welfare and sustainability are now major issues in egg production. This book reviews nutrition and other aspects of husbandry affecting laying hens as well as the environmental impact of egg production and how it can be made more sustainable. ...
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    213,90 €

  • Toward a Sustainable Agriculture
    Frontiers in Sustainability (FinS) is an edited book series by MDPI. It serves as a transdisciplinary and multistakeholder platform for regional and global sustainability issues. Here, we understand transdisciplinarity as a collaboration between researchers from different disciplines to conceptualize, study, and derive solutions to sustainability-relevant problems that may be r...
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    60,44 €

  • Achieving sustainable production of poultry meat Volume 1
    Poultry production faces many challenges. This collection starts by reviewing safety, including detection, prevention and control of zoonoses in poultry flocks. It also discusses key aspects of quality such as meat flavour as well wider issues such as the environmental impact of poultry production. ...
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    366,95 €

  • Sustainable Agriculture-Beyond Organic Farming
    Sean Clark
    The current conception of organic farming is the result of nearly a century of intellectual thought and dialogue, field observations and experiences, systematic experimentation, and codification of rules. Debates on the future viability of organic farming often focus on its capacity to produce sufficient food to meet the demands of a growing human population. Yet any thorough e...
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    90,86 €


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